Careers

Smart Destinations is dedicated to creating great products, a great work environment, and a great place to grow your career. We offer competitive compensation, an outstanding benefits package, and employee stock options designed to reward those who contribute in significant ways to our success. Expect rapid career growth opportunities for those who excel.

We also offer a fast-paced, dynamic work environment. You’ll see suits and skirts as well as jeans and sneakers, and you'll work with talented techies, designers, and travel industry pros. Compensation for the position will be competitive, with an excellent benefits package.

No phone calls please.

Smart Destinations, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Please email your resume to Rob Cartwright at careers@smartdestinations.com

Current available positions

• Senior Web Developer
• Junior Web Developer
• Website Design and User Experience Manager
• Product Manager

We also have internships and co-op opportunities available for 3-6 month periods.

Senior Web Developer

Type: Full Time

Job Summary

Smart Destinations Inc. is looking to fill a newly created leadership role within our software development group. You will be working on the next generation of a new product that represents a large market opportunity for the Company. You will play a key role in directing more junior members of the team as well as play a key role in the design and implementation of the key higher level development tasks. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing group within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop software for multi-platform public facing websites using the following technologies: Java, Spring, EJB3 (Open JPA), Velocity, Ant, BIRT, Eclipse Linux and MySQL.
• Responsible for providing leadership, guidance and mentoring to more junior level developers on the team as well as being a "hands-on" technical contributor to the overall development effort.
• Responsible for development on all tiers of the application from the Java based e-commerce manager through web services.
• Lead design and specification work including reviewing functional specifications and developing technical design specs and or prototypes.
• Work directly with the Engineering Director and Product Manager as well as other team members.
• Programming, including bug fixes, new feature design, and development of future products.
• Maintain existing code and provide bug fixes and improvements where necessary.
• Work with front end developers to set appropriate time lines and technological expectations.
• QA, which includes testing of your code and the code of others. Bug tracking and maintenance.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science with 8-12+ years of experience programming: 6+ years Java 3+ years of Linux experience desired.
• Real World experience with the Spring framework and EJB3 required.
• Understanding of SOAP web services and supporting technologies also desired.
• Experience managing or leading a team of software developers strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of Object Oriented design and core patterns (MVC, DAO, IoC). SQL and database design.

 

Junior Web Developer

Type: Full Time

Job Summary

Smart Destinations Inc. is looking to fill a newly created role within our growing software development group. You will be working on the next generation of a new product that represents a large market opportunity for the Company. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing group within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop software for multi-platform public facing websites using the following technologies: Java, Spring, EJB3 (Open JPA), Velocity, Ant, BIRT, Eclipse Linux and MySQL
• Responsible for development on all tiers of the application from the Java based e-commerce manager through web services.
• Design and specification work includes reviewing functional specifications and developing technical design specs and or prototypes.
• Programming, including bug fixes, new feature design, and development of future products.
• Maintain existing code and provide bug fixes and improvements where necessary.
• Work with front end developers to set appropriate time lines and technological expectations.
• QA, which includes testing of your code and the code of others. Bug tracking and maintenance.
• Provide daily or weekly status update on projects.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science with 4-7+ years of experience programming: 4+ years Java 2+ years of Linux experience is a plus.
• Some scripting experience in PHP or Perl is preferred.
• Deep understanding of Object Oriented design and core patterns (MVC, DAO, IoC). SQL and database design.

Website Design and User Experience Manager

Type: Full Time

Job Summary

Smart Destinations is looking for a talented and motivated full-time Website Design and User Experience Manager. Targeting leisure travelers, Smart Destinations' Go City Cards and Explorer Passes aggregate the best things to do in 14 destinations and put them on a single, smart card-based ticket. The ticket saves the holder time and money doing both the "must see" and the hidden gems from Boston to San Diego and Miami to Maui. Whether its visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art or taking a surf lesson on Waikiki Beach, over 425 top museums, tours, sights, and activities use Smart Destinations ticketing platform and accept the Go City Card and Explorer Pass for admission.

The Smart Destinations web site is a key selling channel for the company, making the Website Design and Experience Manager a critically important role. Strong visual design skills, focus on details and quality, understanding of usability best practices, and experience with current front-end technologies are a must. This person will play an active role in creating a world class user experience for SmartDestinations.com and our e-mail program as we continue to grow our business. As such they must be a creative and energetic member of a cross-functional team that spans technology and marketing

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Development to concept and design innovative, usable, technically feasible, user interfaces for the site and various interactive projects.
• Translate business requirements into innovative user interaction designs.
• Lead the front end design of screen comps, e-mails, new creative elements, landing pages, etc.
• Be able to deliver for a range of design needs including icons, splash pages, navigation components, skins, feature stories, animations, marketing materials and microsites.
• Champion brand and design standards across all projects.
• Design mock-ups for user testing and design solutions based on user feedback.
• Analyze and evaluate current front-end design/usability challenges and implement effective design solutions as part of the broader Web and Marketing team.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years web design experience in a company or agency setting, ideally with predominate B2C work.
• Strong sense of creating designs that convert.
• Proven track record for translating business requirements into highly usable and innovative designs for web sites and web-based applications.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including product development, marketing, and engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative in creating a best-in-class user experience.
• Must be creative, thoughtful and be able to express ideas in an articulate, concise manner.
• Adobe Photo Shop, Image Ready, Illustrator, Visio.
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS, Client-side Javascript a plus.
• Familiarity with Jquery , prototype, or similar modern JS library also a plus.
• Flash experience a plus.

Product Manager

Type: Full Time

Job Summary

Smart Destinations Inc. is looking to fill a newly created Product Manager role within our organization. You will be working on the next generation of a new set of products that represent a large market opportunity for the Company. You will drive the process throughout the entire product life cycle, including defining the product vision, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, and working closely with cross functional teams. You will serve as the internal evangelist for the products. This is an exciting opportunity to join a leader in our industry.

Responsibilities

• Translate user needs and business opportunities into road maps and release schedules
• Champion user stories, workflows, functional and UI/UX improvements
• Drive feature definition, collecting input from multiple sources including customers, prospects, company executives and sales
• Drive internal consensus on development priorities
• Work with development and QA teams to deliver the required solutions on schedule.
• Attend weekly scrum meeting with domestic (and in the future off-shore) development team and participate in daily acceptance testing and bug triages
• Develop analytics and reports that enable the business, product and technology teams to make data-driven decisions
• Identify, track and manage project issues, risks and action items.
• Develop product specifications and priorities based on user feedback, market insights and deep competitive research
• Identify new opportunities; creatively translate existing products into solutions that meet market needs

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of product management experience, including creation of product roadmaps as well as hands-on interaction with development and QA teams to build a product
• Experience using Agile to develop Internet products and technologies; comfortable with SCRUM and iterative development
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills and experience applying these skills to resolve business and product strategic questions, product design considerations and technical issues
• Strong communications skills and the ability to work well with other departments and varying levels of management. Ability to communicate technical issues/limitations/etc to a non-technical audience
• Strong technical skills and ability to work with junior and senior level developers on data driven projects and complex technical solutions